We start this page with the hypothesis that the lexicon is initially underspecified: that some features may be NIL (not specified as either plus or minus). A NIL feature is represented either with no ...
A team of neuroscientists has found new support for linguist Noam Chomsky's decades-old theory that we possess an 'internal grammar' that allows us to comprehend even nonsensical phrases. A team of ...
I was a plenary speaker at the Twenty Seventh International Conference on Head Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2020). HPSG is a theory allied to Construction Grammar. I spoke on "Null ...